EMAIL: tholal@bga.com
NAME: Phil Hall
TOPIC: School
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: d equals r times t
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: http://www.realtime.net/~tholal
RENDERER USED: POV 3.0 for Windows
TOOLS USED: POV 3.0 for Windows
RENDER TIME: ~ 3 hours
HARDWARE USED: Pentium-133, 32 megs of RAM, 4 meg video card
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
	A spaceship, made of pencils (see long description below) journeys into the nebula of
math.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
	When the topic for this month first came out, the only thing I could think of was pencils.
So, I made a pencil. One version was unsharpened, the other had a point. After that I drew a blank
for almost 2 months. I messed around with different textures but nothing clicked. I found the topic
as uninspiring as real school. Then, last week, I remembered how I used to draw spaceships and such 
in my textbooks when I got bored during class. So, somehow, out of that I cam up with a pencil
spaceship. The main body consists of seven unsharpened pencils. The point from my sharpened
one was removed and enlarged to form the nose. The engine struts are made of many small pencils
and the engines themselves are pencils that have been widened and squashed. I tried a regular Yellow
texture on the ship but it was too boring for me. I like using interesting textures. For this picture
I used a two-layer brick pattern for the ship. The rocket flames came out pretty well on the first try and 
needed very little adjustment. I wanted to put a nebula in the background since I've been experimenting 
with the halo feature lately. I also decided to throw a few math terms and formulas out there
in an attempt to fit in with the theme a little better. The name was decided when I was adding in
the distance formula when my cd player happened to play 'Distance Equals Rate Times time" by
the Pixies. This coincidence was too much to ignore.